- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will be sent back to Washington, D.C., with the grace of God and all the Alaskan voters out there because all Alaskans have asked me to go back and continue my service.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020